SI 2023 Macro Public Finance

Dirk Krueger, Florian Scheuer, Stefanie Stantcheva, and Aleh Tsyvinski, Organizers

July 20, 2023

Skyline AB

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, July 20
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:55 am
Session 1: Dynamics of taxation
9:00 am
Margherita Borella, Universita di Torino
Mariacristina De Nardi, University of Minnesota and NBER
Michael Pak, Harvard University
Nicolo Russo, Goethe University Frankfurt
Fang Yang, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

The Importance of Modeling Income Taxes over Time: U.S. Reforms and Outcomes
9:45 am
André Sztutman, Carnegie Mellon University

Dynamic Job Market Signaling and Optimal Taxation
10:30 am
Break
10:55 am
Session 2: International policies
11:00 am
Alessandro Ferrari, University of Zurich
Sébastien Laffitte, CYU - Cergy Paris University
Mathieu Parenti, Paris School of Economics
Farid Toubal, University of Paris-Dauphine

Profit Shifting Frictions and the Geography of Multinational Activity (slides)
11:45 am
Diego R. Kaenzig, Northwestern University and NBER

The Unequal Economic Consequences of Carbon Pricing
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:22 pm
Session 3: Debt
1:30 pm
Andrew B. Abel, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Stavros Panageas, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Running Primary Deficits Forever in a Dynamically Efficient Economy: Feasibility and Optimality
2:15 pm
Neha Bairoliya, University of Southern California
Giovanni Gallipoli, University of British Columbia
Kathleen McKiernan, Vanderbilt University

End-of-Life Liquidity
3:00 pm
Break
3:20 pm
Session 4: Policy reform
3:30 pm
Nils Haakon Lehr
Pascual Restrepo, Boston University and NBER

Optimal Gradualism (slides)
4:15 pm
Varadarajan V. Chari, University of Minnesota and NBER
Patrick J. Kehoe, Stanford University and NBER
Pierlauro Lopez, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Elena Pastorino, Stanford University and NBER
Sergio Salgado, University of Pennsylvania

Taxing the Rich
5:00 pm
Adjourn